Circle Time

Written: 4/4/22 Purpose: Circle Time is used as a way to set goals at the beginning of the week and to review progress on goals from previous weeks. It’s also a way for people who are not present for

1. Assign someone to be the ‘note-taker’ for that meeting; it is generally recommended that the same person is consistently the ‘note-taker’ for circle time.

2. Conducting circle time

   • Should be starting roughly when everyone is there who had said they’re going to be there is present (Note: don’t wait too long - the purpose is to get into work as quickly as possible)

   • Go over the tasks for the four subsections of the team: Mechanical, Electrical, Programming, and Marketing

   • The note-taker should take notes on what is discussed: progress, goals, and announcements; preferably it’s broken down into the team subsections

3. When circle time is finished ALL members should immediately get to work. The note-taker’s first task should be to make a post in slack* with the following format.

Circle Time (date m/d/y)

Mechanical

• progress on current

• notes for mechanical

• new goals

Electrical

• progress on current tasks

• notes for electrical

• new goals

Programming

• progress on current tasks

• notes for programming

• new goals

Marketing

• progress on current tasks

• notes for marketing

• new goals

General Announcements

• Dates on the calendar to be aware of

• anything important to take note of that (1) doesn’t fit into any of the categories above or (2) fits into most/ALL the categories above

• your mom

*Slack is the communications network the robotics team is using when this documentation is written. Everything should be the same if you’re using another communications network outside of formatting things a bit different.